Edmund Burke

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. ”

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing. ”

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other. ”

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation. ”

I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people. ”

If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue. ”

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting. ”

Beauty is the promise of happiness. ”

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint. ”

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together. ”